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Traditional food in Rome

Please recommend some traditional trattoria type restaurants in Rome. Even after a few trips and much searching, we haven't found much we really like in Rome and are usually much happier with restaurants in Florence.

A typical meal might be an antipasto, pasta, wine and desert. Something in the general range of 70-80 euros for two people.

Can you talk more specifically about where you've eaten before in Rome and why these places disappointed you? Also, what was it you found in the restaurants of Florence that was more to your liking? It might help others figure out exactly what to recommend for Rome in the neighborhoods you've mentioned.

Trattoria Monti , not far from Termini, might be up your alley, fine pastas and antipasti as well as good meats, veg and wine. I cant say about dessert, we are not big lovers of Italian restaurant desserts.

Agree with Minchelli on sora margherita, tasty ravioli and other homemade pasta, admittedly not the most refined but good, inexpensive good baby lamb and other roman dishes - we liked, lunch only I believe, friendly, crowded and inexpensive.

We also like La Campana and Armando al Pantheon for lunches (they are open for dinner as well, but we have not tried and we like what we presume is a less touristic feel at lunchtime.) The former has an appetizer array, the latter has excellent traditional roman pasta and meat dishes, and both have desserts we have enjoyed, a rarity in inexpensive italian restaurants.